Our sex columnist, Mistress Maeve, parses the headlines:

If you hadn’t heard yet, McCain has chosen Alaska Governor SarahPalin to be his running mate. As the reports poured in all over theInternet, my favorite take was on Yahoo — they reported that McCain “tapped” Palin to be his vice presidential running mate.

Hmm, let’s check “tap” in the Urban Dictionary…

This article appears in Aug 27 – Sep 2, 2008.

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